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25 joulukuu 2008 (USA) moreTagline:
Whatever they dream up... he has to survive. morePlot:
A family comedy about a hotel handyman whose life changes when the lavish bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew start to magically come true. | add synopsisAwards:
1 win & 4 nominations moreUser Comments:
It woke me up. more (93 total)Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Adam Sandler | ... | Skeeter Bronson | |
| Keri Russell | ... | Jill | |
| Guy Pearce | ... | Kendall | |
| Russell Brand | ... | Mickey | |
| Richard Griffiths | ... | Barry Nottingham | |
| Teresa Palmer | ... | Violet Nottingham | |
| Lucy Lawless | ... | Aspen | |
| Courteney Cox | ... | Wendy | |
| Jonathan Morgan Heit | ... | Patrick | |
| Laura Ann Kesling | ... | Bobbi | |
| Jonathan Pryce | ... | Marty Bronson | |
| Nick Swardson | ... | Engineer | |
| Kathryn Joosten | ... | Mrs. Dixon | |
| Allen Covert | ... | Ferrari Guy | |
| Carmen Electra | ... | Hot Girl |
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Rated PG for some mild rude humor and mild language.Parents Guide:
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99 minCountry:
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EnglishColor:
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2.35 : 1 moreCertification:
USA:PG (certificate #44892) | Ireland:PG | Australia:G | South Korea:All | Singapore:PG | Netherlands:6 | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Germany:o.Al. | New Zealand:PG | Philippines:G (MTRCB) | Hong Kong:IIA | Taiwan:GP | South Africa:PG | Sweden:Btl | Portugal:M/6 | Argentina:Atp | Peru:PT | Finland:K-7 | Mexico:A | UK:PGFilming Locations:
Backlot, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA moreFun Stuff
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Cameo: [Rob Schneider]appears as a mugger in the "real life" story and as a Native American horse trader in one of the Western story sequences. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: Near the beginning of the movie when Skeeter goes to his sister's house for her daughter Bobbi's birthday, Skeeter mistakes Patrick to be Bobbi, presumably due to the "boyish" sounding name. However when Wendy's best friend Jill shows up and is talking to Skeeter outside of the house, the present she has with her is wrapped in very "boyish" wrapping paper with basketballs and footballs all over it. moreQuotes:
Skeeter Bronson: [looking over the kids' storybooks] What do ya got here, anyways? "Rainbow Alligator Saves the Wetlands"? Uh, no. "The Organic Squirrel Gets a Bike Helmet"? I'm not reading these Communist books to you guys! Don't you got any *real* stories? moreSoundtrack:
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"What if the stories you told came to life?" Bedtime Stories Promo
Having suffered through Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008), I was prepared to suffer through Bedtime Stories, his offering in the 2008 Christmas glut of fine movies that have few for kids. Sandler rules: This is one of the best children/adult stories this year, an ironic twist on romantic and heroic tales told from children's point of view through the masterful child/adult lens of an underplaying, child-friendly master.
Sandler's Skeeter Bronson takes care of his niece and nephew for a week. Of course he hasn't a clue because he hasn't seen them in four years and his job as super-maintenance man at the Sunny Vista Hotel in Las Vegas consumes most of his time and energy. He's the usual Sandler sweet-hearted semi-loser with reserves of child-like sympathies ready to be released.
The conceit is that after telling the humorous tales with the kids' ample and creative input at bedtime, the story elements become real in real life, altered to fit the modern context (e.g., a rain of gumballs actually happens the next day, explainable by a candy truck spilling its contents over a bridge onto Sandler). In this ingenious way, the film recalls the Wizard-of-Oz trick of making real in Kansas what Dorothy had experienced in the Emerald City.
There is nothing deep about this delight, just a small satire of a society that may be losing its sense of wonder and fun in order to bow at the altars of nutrition and commercialism. Not bad for a film I thought would be another Sander nodder. It woke me up to the joys of imagination and love.
Happy holidays.